{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-1516","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. Education Law § 1516","heading":"Special meeting of joint district to act regarding alteration or dissolution","body":"§ 1516. Special meeting of joint district to act regarding alteration\nor dissolution.  1. If a district superintendent, by notice in writing,\nshall require the attendance of the other district superintendents, at a\njoint meeting for the purpose of altering or dissolving a joint\ndistrict, and a majority of all the superintendents shall refuse or\nneglect to attend, such superintendents attending, or any one of them,\nmay call a special meeting of such school district for the purpose of\ndeciding whether such district shall be altered or dissolved.\n  2. If such special meeting shall vote to alter or dissolve the\ndistrict, the district superintendent or superintendents who called such\nmeeting may make an order altering or dissolving the district and shall\nrecite in such order the refusal or neglect of the other district\nsuperintendents, his call of the special meeting and the action taken at\nsuch meeting.","path":["Education Law","Title 2. School District Organization","Article 31. School Districts"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/EDN/1516","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:44Z","sha256":"543d40de1270e4edd3223bb511c52f1fd60906a50b6d40d2e9e105ba93e25292","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-1515","next":"us-ny/n.y.-education-law-1517"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}